sleet

The result is a mix of sunshine, rain, sleet, and snow, sometimes all in the same day.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

A massive winter storm continues to hit large parts of the country, dumping snow, sleet and freezing rain and leaving hundreds of thousands without power in the South.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2026

Meteorologists said to expect heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

It warns of “crippling ice and sleet to portions of the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley Friday.”

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

Gregory is not the kind of person who would get that wrong—he’s got his whole sleet and snow and rain commitment, and he takes that stuff seriously.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

"No; it sleets now and then, and sometimes blows."

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever

In this circumnavigation, amidst sleets and falls of snow, fogs, and much moist weather, the Resolution enjoyed nearly the same good state of health she had done in the temperate and torrid zones.

From A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 by James Cook

Here the first winter sleets and snows fall and lie, and here the spring frost lingers last unthawed.

From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

So much of the finest forests of Kentucky had been lost through its annual summer tempests and its rarer but more awful wintry sleets.

From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen

Child of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me, Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying glimpses of the sea?

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

It sleeted all morning, but the sun came out for the march.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 21, 2017

“You’re being rained on and snowed on and sleeted on all day long. It makes for misery.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2014

Sweated, froze, got sleeted on, rained on, snowed on, and never saw a deer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now when wan winter sunsets be Canary-colored down the sky; When nights are starless utterly, And sleeted winds cut moaning by, One's memory keeps one company, And conscience puts his "when" and "why."

From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Madison Julius Cawein

It rained, hailed, and sleeted until the country around and about them became very muddy and swampy, and at times covered with a sheet of sleet and ice.

From Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles by John McElroy

The temperature was little above freezing and it was sleeting, members of the team said at the time.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023

Also, aside from anecdotal evidence of short-lived sleeting in the western suburbs, there was no ice, snow or other frozen precipitation.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2022

“It was raining, sleeting and snowing and I was out getting feed,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2015

It was a raw, sleeting February night, the day after Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead.

From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2014

And now it was sleeting, the snow already glistening with ice.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer